Sohan Lal Koul, a Kashmiri Pandit, a producer at Doordarshan and now a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novelist. He translated the Prime Minister’s address into Kashmiri and recited it himself. Since then, he has been the familiar voice behind PM Modi in Kashmir.

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'Those of us who arrived in Goa already partnered up tend to forget how small and scattered the dating pool really is. Poet Pragya Bhagat, who contributed an essay on app dating in Goa to the anthology Appetite, has often watched friends spot their app matches across the room—a rare coincidence in the city.'

Karanjeet Kaur, columnist, writes

The latest SIR exercise is the only one in India’s history that has resulted in the shrinking of electoral rolls. Historically, the 8 times that an intensive revision was carried out, more voters were added than deleted.

Apoorva Mandhani explains:

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France riots: What's behind violence, who is protesting and why the unrest may have bigger implications. ThePrint Consulting Editor (International & Strategic Affairs) Swasti Rao explains:

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Can a private individual ask for probe against an election candidate for false declaration in nomination papers? A recent SC judgement says yes.Bhadra Sinha explains the core legal issue decided in the judgement & its impact on a voter's right:

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'Not a single BJP leader has visited Dhankhar since he resigned. Now, the party’s ideological patron, the RSS, has sent an unmistakable message that it doesn’t consider him a pariah, notwithstanding what happened between him and PM Modi.'

DK Singh, Political Editor, writes

Sarus cranes mate for life, but habitat loss, shrinking farmland and climate change threaten their future. With around 13,000 left in Uttar Pradesh, their survival rests with India’s farmers. Watch Bharati Chaturvedi’s video blog for ThePrint

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Maharashtra's Marathwada region is staring at a deepening drought. With rainfall deficit, drying water sources & failing crops, farmers are struggling, while forecasts warn the condition may worsen. Watch #ThePrintGroundReport by Soumya Pillai

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'I am not sure if the central government knows that it is sitting on a powder keg. The day a major star is bumped off, all of India will question the state of law and order in our country. And inevitably they will ask: how is a gangster organising this violence from inside a Gujarat jail?'

Vir Sanghvi writes

Migrant remittances & IMF loan have limits. Now Bangladesh must rebuild its institutions. Watch #Economix with ThePrint Consulting Editor (Economics) Bidisha Bhattacharya


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The fame has acquired an audience the 30-year-old widow never sought. Now, politicians want to meet her, journalists want to interview her, and strangers have begun invoking her name online. But the one thing she wants from all this attention remains uncertain — a job.

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How the RSS invitation to ex-VP Dhankhar fits in the Sangh’s larger goals involving Yogi, ThePrint Political Editor DK Singh explains

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“They made us take them down. We spoke to them, but they threatened that they would cancel the show if we didn’t take them down. So, there wasn’t much of an option left,” Vadra, 26, told ThePrint in an exclusive interview.

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Books have now become another vehicle in the state’s sharpening ideological battle. This is the first Durga Puja since the BJP came to power in West Bengal. The Left alleges its bookstalls were attacked across the city during the festivities—from Ballygunge, Tollygunge, Jadavpur in the south to Hooghly and Howrah across the Ganga, and even in Cooch Behar and West Midnapore. The CPI(M) has filed 10 complaints in Kolkata, and Ghosh and his team have even gone to court. But the Calcutta High Court rejected the plea Wednesday saying while they had asked for permission, it was never granted by the Kolkata police or municipal authorities.

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Opinion: 'But while the writers Salim and Javed were plotting Sholay, they were also creating a new genre. They wrote Deewaar by taking the theme of Ganga Jamuna and setting it in the Mumbai docks rather than the ravines of Chambal. Within the film industry it was no secret that Deewaar (released a few months before Sholay) was loosely based on the life of the smuggler and gangster Haji Mastan.
It became a superhit and launched a new romance between the film industry and the underworld. Mastan loved the attention, loved mixing with film stars, financed more movies and reportedly even commissioned a biopic in which he played himself. (The film was never completed.)'

Vir Sanghvi writes

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'The claim of an Ashoka connection in Khotan endured for over half a millennium, well after the fall of the Kushans. In 981 CE, for example, when seeking a bride from the royal family of Dunhuang, a Khotanese king claimed in a letter to be as pious as Ashoka (Xin Wen, The King’s Road).'

Anirudh Kanisetti, author & historian, writes

The human brain remains one of the least understood organs. At IIT Madras, researchers are using high-resolution imaging, computing and AI to map the brain down to individual cells and nerve fibres. Sneha Richhariya explains:

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The Chambal region, which straddles the borders of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, has long been synonymous with two things— its rugged ravines and the dangerous dacoits that dwelled in them. One can leave Chambal to escape the poverty and caste conflict that plagues the region, but the dacoit tag is far more difficult to shed.

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There’s also been little chance to pass on the load, with global geopolitical instability having dealt out sharp fluctuations in raw material costs. Driven by the Ukraine war and the one in West Asia—which has now expanded to strangle the Red Sea passage and encompass top producer Saudi Arabia—crude oil prices have chewed a big hole into the profit margins of garment-makers who use synthetic fabric like polyester, nylon, and spandex.

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Opinion: 'Gloomy headlines such as these, which were infrequent till about a year ago, are now common. The June 2025 Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people, seems to have been a tipping point for the downbeat state of Indian aviation.'

George Skaria, former Editor of Indian Management and Asian Management Review, writes

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